Vladimir Put’s war on gays | The Hill

Contents:

• PUT SHAR THOUGHTS ON SHOWERG WH GAY MEN AND MENSTAL CYCL
• MAN WHO CLAIMS 'PUT'S CHEF' IS GAY INV SKEPTICS TO MEET HIM
• THE GAY WORLD WAR? INSI PUT’S WARPED REALY
• IS VLADIMIR PUT GAY?
• VLADIMIR PUT’S WAR ON GAYS
• RSIA BANS IMAG OF PUT LKED TO ‘GAY CLOWN’ MEME
• PUT AS GAY IN? MEM AS A TACTIC RSIAN LGBT+ ACTIVISM
• IS VLADIMIR PUT GAY?
• INSI THE IRON CLOSET: WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY PUT'S RSIA

PUT SHAR THOUGHTS ON SHOWERG WH GAY MEN AND MENSTAL CYCL

Rsian Print Vladimir Put has suggted his mastery of judo would e handy if a gay man ma a move on him the shower, while fendg his ernment's clg rerd on LGBT spoke to U.

MAN WHO CLAIMS 'PUT'S CHEF' IS GAY INV SKEPTICS TO MEET HIM

"The man repeatedly lled Rsia's most eligible bachelor later parri qutns about one of his third printial term's most ntroversial laws—the so-lled gay propaganda law. Any rmative materials on the issue are nsired activism, and mt not be available to law has embolned members of Put's own Uned Rsia party to lobby for a ban or age-lim on same-sex emojis smartphon and rally crowds unr a heterosexual "real" fay pri flag, while Communist Party MPs have drafted legislatn to ban gay people om "g out" public.

THE GAY WORLD WAR? INSI PUT’S WARPED REALY

Addrsg legislatn Rsia, Put told Stone "there are no rtrictns whatsoever" on gay people, flectg to the fact that other untri, such as hardle Islamic natns, have much more explic bans on homosexualy, cludg the ath of his personal attus then?

Oliver Stone asked Put, a former secury service agent and director, what his rponse would be if a gay man were showerg next to him a submare. A vio makg the rounds on social media purports to show a man claimg that a close nfidant of Rsian Print Vladimir Put is gay, and he is vg skeptics to meet wh vio, shared Tuday by an Estonian Twter er who go by "Dmri, " begs wh a Rsian man troducg himself as Sasha Kurara and claimg to be an ex-nvict, havg served time prison at the same time as Yevgeny Prigozh. Prigozh is a wealthy bsman wh a close relatnship wh Put, sometim dubbed "Put's Chef" bee of his var rtrants and terg further said the profany- and slur-lan clip that Prigozh is gay, or at least, performed sexual acts on other men durg his time prison.

IS VLADIMIR PUT GAY?

This is where the gay propaganda kicks : It’s all a part of a dastardly plan, he says, by Wtern el to stop the natural propagatn of humany. It’s agast a New World Orr of Bilrberg and Davos el tryg to geilly engeer a subservient humany wh gay marriag the Wt and killer vis the rt of the world. They are alg stead wh a someone steeped nspiracy theori, who believ he is fightg a csa agast gay marriag, geilly modified mosquo, and the Bilrbergs.

He portrayed the war as a stggle between those seekg to reject Wtern valu and gay pri paras held as, his words, “loyalty tt[s]” to Wtern ernments. Kreml officials seized on the ia of banng “gay propaganda, ” takg an obscure law that had been gag steam regnal legislatur sce 2006 and passg at the feral level 2013. But the fear generated by the legislatn is already leadg to censorship: onle cemas have leted LGBT-themed films and TV seri and eded out gay scen.

VLADIMIR PUT’S WAR ON GAYS

In one episo of the highly-acclaimed HBO seri The Whe Lot, a Rsian streamg service changed the word "gay" to "man", eded a towel onto one male character's bare backsi and leted a gay sex scene, jt days after the law was ptn, The book Shattered, about the romance between two men, has been heavily redacted RsiaBooks, too, are beg censored.

The text has been redacted by the publisher, wh whole sectns replaced wh black of the -thors of the law, an openly homophobic natnalist lled Valy Milonov, agre to speak to me via violk. What is not batable is the Soviet style-vlatn of human rights Vladimir Put’s Rsia, except that the victims this time are not dissints and Jews but gays. In fact, was the rult of Vladimir Put’s severe homophobia and his nstant emphasis on the moral rptn of the Wt (and Rsia’s moral superry).

The then mayor of Mosw scribed gay events as “Satanic” and one regnal ernor suggted that “faggots should be torn apart and their piec thrown the wd.

RSIA BANS IMAG OF PUT LKED TO ‘GAY CLOWN’ MEME

In October 2013, a Rsian lawmaker troduced legislatn the Rsian Parliament to forcibly remove children om the hom of their gay or lbian parents on the ground that “nontradnal sexual orientatn” was equivalent to child abe. But a law is on the books forbiddg “propaganda of non-tradnal sexual relatns” among mors and is so broadly word that Rsian gay parents are ightened that they still will lose their children. Another law was passed forbiddg adoptn of Rsian-born children by foreign gay upl or dividuals livg untri that regnize same sex marriage.

Rsian gays who protted the laws were beaten by hoodlums while the police stood by, which Amnty Internatnal termed “state sanctned vlence and discrimatn. As shown HBO’s documentary, Hunted: The War Agast Gays Rsia, which jt premiered the Uned Stat, a vigilante anizatn lled Occupy Pedophilia films s members huiatg, beatg and torturg gays and then posts the films onle ( one scene, a female rglear of an Occupy group, lghg at the prospect of trappg a gay man, says “we’ll stroy his life as ual.

PUT AS GAY IN? MEM AS A TACTIC RSIAN LGBT+ ACTIVISM

”) Occupy Pedophilia is not a ge sect; has branch 30 Rsian ci and s thugs have sentially been given ee re by thori to go on a rampage agast gays. Sce Put’s re-electn, over 5, 000 people have been arrted more than 200 protts over anti-gay laws, but members of Occupy Pedophilia are rarely prosecuted, let alone nvicted, even though their fac are plaly visible the films. Ined, Put fends the anti-gay adoptn and propaganda laws by equatg gays wh pedophil, which Occupy Pedophilia likewise profs to be the reason asslts gays.

Prr to the Sochi Wter Olympics, Print Obama and many celebri and athlet, om Lady Gaga to NBA player and gay athlete John Hamachi, nmnedRsia’s reprsn of gays.

Imag of Put, often wh rouged cheeks and eye shadow, have been onle sce 2011 – and have had much wir circulatn sce 2013 prott over what beme known as Rsia’s gay propaganda law. The law, which scrib homosexualy as “non-tradnal sexual relatns, ” bars the public discsn of gay rights and relatnships anywhere children might hear .

IS VLADIMIR PUT GAY?

The Rsian state and s lears are equently put to nversatn wh homosexualy, but the valence of the disurse shifts by first sectn of this chapter exam the image closer tail, nductg a semtic analysis of how a picture be memetic, able to travel across space and time.

INSI THE IRON CLOSET: WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY PUT'S RSIA

We nsir the subject of the gay clown image self, Footnote 3 Rsian Print Vladimir Put, as a cril space wh the terpretive polysemy of prott. We emphasize that the explic shift om behavr (fg sexual acts between subjects) to performance and imag (pecially those suggtive of Put’s “non-standard sexual orientatn”) recenters the genr bate wh an thorarian range, reifyg homophobic propaganda and jtifyg anti-gay state policy.

Footnote 4, Footnote 5 On Augt 23, 2013, a Getty photographer at a prott outsi the Rsian embassy Madrid photographed a protter wh a sign pictg Put’s face bold make-up superimposed over a rabow flag wh the words “STOP HOMOFOBIA” [sic] scribed on his forehead. Footnote 6 Here, the image appears (sans the scriptn “STOP HOMOFOBIA”) on a poster, above a ptn readg ( Rsian): “Electors of Put are like. ”Footnote 7 While the Mistry of Jtice listg oms “obscene vobulary” om the origal quote, the implitns of the msage’s polil lcul are clear: Put voters are homosexual and Put’s their man.